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Dell EMC RecoverPoint Information Disclosure / Resource Consumption

Dell EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.1.2.1 and RecoverPoint for VMs versions prior to 5.2.0.2 contain an information disclosure vulnerability. A malicious boxmgmt user may potentially be able to determine the existence of any system file via Boxmgmt CLI. Dell EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.1.2.1 and RecoverPoint for VMs versions prior to 5.2.0.2 contain an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability. A malicious boxmgmt user may potentially be able to consume large amount of CPU bandwidth to make the system slow or to determine the existence of any system file via Boxmgmt CLI.

Dell EMC RecoverPoint contains fixes to multiple security vulnerabilities which could potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

Details:

Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2018-15771

Dell EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.1.2.1 and RecoverPoint for VMs versions prior to 5.2.0.2 contain an information disclosure vulnerability. A malicious boxmgmt user may potentially be able to determine the existence of any system file via Boxmgmt CLI.

CVSSv3 Base Score: 2.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability

CVE-2018-15772

Dell EMC RecoverPoint versions prior to 5.1.2.1 and RecoverPoint for VMs versions prior to 5.2.0.2 contain an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability. A malicious boxmgmt user may potentially be able to consume large amount of CPU bandwidth to make the system slow or to determine the existence of any system file via Boxmgmt CLI.

CVSSv3 Base Score: 3.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

Resolution:

The following Dell EMC RecoverPoint releases contain resolutions to these vulnerabilities:

* Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 5.2.0.2

* Dell EMC RecoverPoint 5.1.2.1

Dell EMC recommends all customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

Dell EMC would like to thank Paul Taylor (@bao7uo) for reporting these vulnerabilities.

Severity Rating

For an explanation of Severity Ratings, refer to Dell EMC Knowledgebase article 468307 (https://support.emc.com/kb/468307). Dell EMC recommends all customers take into account both the base score and any relevant temporal and environmental scores which may impact the potential severity associated with particular security vulnerability.

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